On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 12:29:35PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 3:40 PM Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Introduce a new ITER_FLAG_FAST_ONLY flag > > I think the code is fine, but I think it might be best to call this > "ITER_FLAG_NOIO" or something like that. > > The "FAST_ONLY" name makes sense in the context of > "get_user_pages_fast()" where we have that "fast" naming (and the long > history too). But I don't think it makes much sense as a name in the > context of iov_iter. This code has never been tested with current lib/iov_iter.c as it is in mainline. Or had been in -next during the last cycle. It won't apply at all. Sure, I can try to port that series over to the current mainline, but I'd rather see that done (and tested) by the series author...
